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/"A YPJ fighter (right) next to a very similar picture of a female
fighter in the Spanish revolution in the 1930s. The comparison is apt.
The presence of such a high proportion of female front line fighters is
evidence of a profound social transformation that has been happening in
liberated Rojava and within the Kurdish revolutionary movement."/
By *Tony Iltis*
November 1, 2014 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/
-- On November 1, protests were held worldwide in solidarity with
Kobanê. Protests took place in most countries on every continent. Even
in Afghanistan, protests were organised in six cities by left-wing
anti-occupation groups.
After withstanding more than six weeks of intense siege by the terrorist
group that calls itself “Islamic State” (IS), Kobanê (also called
Kobani), a small majority-Kurdish town on the Syrian side of the border
with Turkey, has become one of the most well-known places on the planet.
The defenders of Kobanê mostly belong to the Syrian-Kurdish militias,
the Peoples Defence Units (YPG) and Womens Defence Units (YPJ). The YPG
has both male and female fighters. The YPJ is, as its name suggests, all
female. Despite having held three cantons in Rojava as liberated zones
since July 2012, until recently these militias were as obscure as Kobanê
itself.
However, the besieged town’s resistance, and its increasing significance
in the new, vaguely defined and open-ended Western air war against IS,
has brought these fighters to the world’s attention.
Full article http://links.org.au/node/4129
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